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YOUNG people of Clitheroe are being offered


1 a hand by the town’s incoming Mayor. When Coun. John McGowan formally^ accepted his


I He said the town must find new ideas and projects were not to “wither and die .


and it must look to “our children and young people . . Coun. McGowan said he wanted to create a youth


council to work with existing youth organisations and even advise adult bodies such as the town council.


I haVe a forum which will allow their voices.to be eard.”


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| In a wide-ranging speech, the incoming Mayor also spoke of his intention to start a senes of Saturday surgeries to be held at the town hall, where people of all ages will be able to voice their problems. He expressed his wish to see the council become an ena- | bling authority, to facilitate the growth of new orgam-


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Pair tuning up for another top event


THE organisers of a local folk festival are tuning up


for a top event this year. Mr Steve Burke and Mr


day the town will be buzz­ ing. There will be upwards of 150 street entertainers,


I for this year’s event were These will lndude music selling like hot fiddles.


Phil Brown, organisers of ceilidh bands in the coun- the top-note Clitheroe try, and plenty of activi- Folk Festival, said tickets ties for youngsters.


including two of the best


feature the festival exten- an{, Community Centre, sively and will have a the )atter featuring Turk- broadcast team m place ish druminer Akaytemiz, outside the Platform Gal- be eXpiained. lery during the event.


Radio Lancashire is to Centre and Trinity Youth , . . . and St John s Social . workshops at St Michae


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Box, Through the Wall, formed by the church’s All Blacked Up, Cock and minister, the Rev. Geoff Bull, Lindisfarne and Rodgers, who is a gui- popular Euro roots band ta r is t and folk music Prego.


Top acts to appear are Lane, Clitheroe, per- Reformed Church, in Moor


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On June 7th the town Special festival pro­ enthusiast.


A MOSCOW firm catering for “New Russians” want­ ing. a more luxurious lifestyle has targeted a Chth-


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eroe firm.Businessman Nikita Ostrovsky and three of his workers visited .the town for hands-on experience at Ultraframe, one of Europe’s leading conservatory man­ ufacturers, and then placed a substantial order for


components.


' Business is booming for Mr Ostrovsky, who builds conservatories for the new rich of the post Commu­ nist era. Normally, he imports roofs made at Ultra­ frame’s Salthill factory, but now wants to assemble the components at his own premises. Mr Ostrovsky and his three employees have been


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He said: “For too long politicians have paid lip service to young people. I believe it is vital that they


new post as the town’s first citizen, he told a packed meeting of town council members and specially-invited dignitaries that Clitheroe must look to the future if it


sations and to see the council grow itself. A Clitheroe man, who was born in the town in


future generations “can look back and see what w ceremony of a bygone era brought the town centre to a


is vital to start planning the town s celebrations and commemorations of the new Millennium now, so tte t


1953 and educated at Edisford Primary School and Ribblesdale High School, Coun. McGowan thinks it


did.” After leaving school in 1968, Coun. McGowan took on


a number of jobs in the town before ending up as a gardener for the old borough council. He moved on to become head gardener at his old secondary school and Ribblesdale Nursery until an accident brought an end


to his career in 1991. He joined the Liberal Democrats later that year


On Tuesday, tradition took centre stage during the annual mayor-making proceedings, and the pom -p and


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and a Successful career in local government ensued. He had praise for the outgoing Mayor, Coun. Ste­ phen Holt, when he said: “If I can achieve half as much as Stephen has done in the past two years I will be doing very well indeed.”


^p ro c e s s io n , which included the left the town hall half


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learning how to fabricate the products and operate the computer processes involved, under the supervision of Colin Hollis, Ultraframe’s technical support and train­ ing manager, and Jack Lonsdale, the firm’s traning officer. By the end of the week-long visit, the Russian firm had placed an order for components for 50 roofs,


with the promise of further substantial orders to follow. ofSaid Mr Hollis: “They told us that only about 5%


the rest are pretty poor. The rich, known as the New Russians, are ordering conservatories for the new properties they are having built.” Our picture shows the Russians visitors with Ultra- frame hosts. (CAT 8902)


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?easK!e was e"J2X?d,by 42 group walked back along the coastal path and even­ tually, due to the low tide, were able to walk along the sands, where they saw seaspurry in bloom and clumps of pink thrift grow-


members of Clitheroe Naturalists.


The views across to large patches of yellow Grange were a little hazy lichens;


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Arnside was the desti­ nation on Saturday,


walk starting on the prom­ enade with a stop for lunch at the Knott.


the jng along the rocks among


due to the heat of the day, The le a d e r , J a n e t but the low tide exposed Eaton, was thanked by vast sandbanks, giving an Donald Lloyd. The next opportunity for the birds walk is to the Grassington Ily “} t(? feed. notably area on May 17th, leaving l„arge , flocks of oyster- Clitt.hprno station at 10


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where a few early blue­ bells and wood anemones were seen, as well as vio­ lets m full flower, and in places, evidence of the large areas of wild daffo­ dils, which had been in


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